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2 k»ble sympathy for South Carolina in her pre sent wild and revolutionary scheme of dtsu nl Now, what inference are the people to draw from these facts» Must they not conclude that the party in question is in truth and reality a disunion party — Ike disunion party T H delegates had been friends of the Union, woe d they have adopt* d -uch resolutions would they have nominated as their candidate for Governor the man who presided over the Nash ville Convention, aud the Macon Convention, and who sanctioned the sentiments of Mr. Rhett by introducing him to the disunion as semblage, that convened in this city last sum mer t We think not. Therefore the people will be fu'-ly justified in etvling the Convention in question, the diaanum Convention, and the party which it represents, the disunion party. Governor McDonald must be regarded as the disua-o* nominee; and those who support him are clearly entitled to the appellation ofdirn ■ioaiats. The issue then has teeu distinctly made. Those who sustain the nomir.a:i o n m question, if honest, if actuated by princip es, are the unquestionable advocates of dHunton ar it is now proclaimed by Mr. Rhett and hie eo-laborers. No man who thinks differently -no man who believes that the compromise measures do not afford suffictent cause for dis union-no man who adheres to the govern ment as it is, and who <s nut anxious for its destruction, can support either Governor Mc- Donald or his advocates. M. Yancy, of Ala bama was right, he was honest when he de clared that there was no middle ground be tween the platform of the Georgia Conven tion and open undisguised disunion of the con federacy The people of Georgia have now an opportunity to understand the true issue before them, and we warn them not to be misguided or deceived by the professions ol those who desire to obtain power under false pretences. DR. ARNOLD'S LETTER. Savasmah, June 13th. 1851. To R. B. BUtoa. Eaf., one of the Editors of the Savannah Georgian.— Dear Sir: In your editorial of the 6th inst, relative to the politi cal meetings held last summer in this city, in regard to the first meeting of the Nashville Convention, 1 find the following sentences. “Let os address a few words to the Union Demoeratsof this vicinity. Where you not last summer bitterly hostile to the Clay Compro mise T” “We find among those who reported and those whose eloquence advocated the res olutions then adopted, one of the m»t promi nent and ableof the ‘Union Democrats.’ ” As your allusion in the latter sentence is confessedly made to me, aud as on the morning of the 6th inst., you republished the proceed ings of the meeting of the 33d of July last, in which my name appears scone of the commit tee reporting the resolutions then adopted, I respectfully request the use of your columns, to supply the omission you have made in the History of that meeting, and by so doing, vin dicate myself from the charge of a gross in consistency which your partial view of that History would otherwise cause to obtain against me. This partial view I attribute entirely to the faet that you were not in Georgia at that time, nor were you connected with the Georgian, and that of course you could not be cognizant of all the circumstances which then transpir ed. For myself individually, i deny most em phatically and indignantly that I ever was op posed to ’he Compromise- 1 appeal confident ly to my Democratic friends with whom I con versed on that then absorbing subject, and 1 appeal especially to my friend Mr. Punch, then and now one of the Editors of the Geor gian, to bear witness that I was openly and avowedly in favor of the Compromise. My ardent desire was to see the nationality of the Democratic Party preserved. I did not find that desire responded to by many with whom I had previously acted in political con eert. I was afraid that an element of dis cord was about to be introduced into the Par ty in Georgia, for many Presses which had always been Democratic were decrying the Compromise, and urging that old Party lines should be abandoned, and that a treat South ern Rights Party should be formed irrespective of those lines. A call, to which I was not privy in any way, was made in the Georgian of the 20th July last, for the friends of the Nashville Convention to meet on the 23d. As 1 would at any time have been willing to have seen the difficulty be tween the North and the South settled accord ing to the recommendation of Mr. Buchanan in 1847, by the adoption of the Missouri Com promise line, I attended that meeting as a spec tator. To my surprise, as I had not been apprized of what was to be done, and as I was far back in the crowd, I was appointed one of the Com mittee to report resolutions. The Committee will recollect my opposition to inanv, and my modification of some of those resolutions, as they had been brought cut and dried into the Committee room, with a certain stamp which b iyed their paternity. 1 >cqaiesced in their being reported, re serving to myself the right of explanation after the report should have been made. I should certainly feel awkward if I depend ed merely upon the recollection of verbal de clarations to vindicate myself from your charge, for that would involve the questions of correctness of memory, and of veracity. In the official report of the meeting it is stated that the'Speakers, including of course myself, fully sustained the resolutions. I impute no thing intentionally unfair to my esteemed young friend, Mr. Montgomery Cumming, the Secretary, but that this was a mistake as regards myself was notorious to every one who heard me apeak that night. My speech was in reply to Mr. John Bilbo, the Chairman of the Committee, and in entire opposition to his views. But fortunately for me I can appeal to a F-r-i»t^TpiT-r-ir■ **».»■! *<abuiuijirkctr WDBX I here assert. Io the same number of the Savannah Re publican, (of the 25th July, 1850) which con tained the official account of the meeting; there appeared an Editorial giving an account of the proceedings, and a *yn *psia of my remarks. Thisaitide was written by Mr. I*. W. Alexander, the assistant Editor, as 1 have since learned, for at that time we were barely acquainted and had never exchanged ten words with each other. The article in question gave the following synopsis of my remarks. “We were much pleased at the pointed manner in which Dr. Arnold rebuked those sealola who indulge in wholesale denunciation of the Senate's compromise and Mr. Clay Thoughalways politically opposed to Mr. Clay, he felt called upon to say his recent coarse had evinced the most exalted patriotism. He be lieved that the Committee ot Thirteen was actuated by the purest motives in reporting the Senatorial Compromise, and that the plan recommended, with proper modifications, might have been (be T) accepted by the South without degradation or dishonor. He then proceeded to show that the compromise made substantial concessions to the South in (his, that it solemnly rejected the Wilmot Proviso —opened all of New Mexico and Utah to the slaveholder, secured the recovery of fugitive slaves—and adjusted the threatening Boundary question between Texas and New Mexico with the consent of Texas But he was willin ' to sacrifice any preferences he had. and unite up on the Missouri compromise line, hoping that the Southern people would all stand together and maintain whatever position they finally de* tarnined to take?* Now, my dear air, 1 appeal to you and tbrougn you to your reader*, if you ran call thia advocating the revolutions in 'he manner iu which you accuse mo to have done in your editorial of the sth ins*.; if you can for one moment class me as one of those who were last sommer "bitterly hostile to the Clay Compro- BIUM f” The truth is, that I was aniious to see harmo ny prevail amongst the Democrats of cur State, and if I sinned at all in being willing to yield my personal preferences, it arose from the warmth and sincerity of my attachment to that great national party to which it has ever been my pride to be attached since the first vote cast by me into the ballot box. The meeting at Macon in August last opened my eyes to the true intention of that portion ot the Democratic party of Georgia who were op posed to the Compromise. The single word “Disunion” which went up from the midst of the large assemb age gathered there, served to convince me, and the thousands ot Democrns who now occupy the same position with me, that we never could affiliate with those political lead ers whose path led to such a result. We ap proved of the Compromise, we supported it, and in November last, the people of Georgia by a majority unprecedented in the political annals of the State, moat triumphantly sustained that great Peace offering. That was the great question then, that is the great question now. We do not acquiesce in it merely aathe Southern Righis Party do; we support and approve of it. it 1 considered it humiliating and degrading to the Sou h, I would denounce it with all the power that 1 pos sess. I cheerfully joined with those ot my Whig fellow-citizens who entertained the same views of this measure as myself. The question as to the existence of a government necessarily takes precedence of how that government should be administered. In their support of the compromise, neither Whig nor Democrat is called upon to disavow any previous opinion. Wears not called upon to dispute upon our ideas of political Government. We have an open and common ground upon which Democrat and Whig can meet. That ground is laid down J olntly by them in the resolutions adopted by the Georgia Convention in December last. 1 believe it to be ground consesvalive of the Onion and of Southern Rights. The destiny of thia Union lies in the hands of the non-slavehold ing States. Georgia has solemnly taken her stand. 1 think it one continent with her inter est, her dignity and her honor. Now, my dear Sir, I have quietly stood all the imputations about Democrats who' supported the Compromise being renegades, about our being gulled, Ac., fur I was satisfied with the correct ness of our position. The imputation that all such Democrats are also mere office seekers, falls harmless at. my feet, because it is well known in this community that I have no political aspirations, and that 1 have retused, under the Democratic organiza tion, to become a candidate .'or State or Nation aucha’carew n '' M ‘" n to with But I do not give ap lhe ruhl rs . vate judgment because 1 ,m a Vb„, cl < or can 1 tamely submit to the imputation of havino besu “bitterly hosfiic,’’ to a measure which h-f my approbation from its very inception. As Col. Jackson’s vote on the C. mprom'se was cast after the meetings in question, it ,an have no hearing on the subject, one wai or the ether. But my dear air, when endeavoring to •‘post youreelt up” as to the events ot last summer, you ought to have turned back a few leaves ot vonrnle of the Georgian, and have ascertained lhe position your own paperoceup ed on this im portant matter. a well recollect two editorials in the Georg n of Which I approved then, as Ido now Bv f srence to the Georgian of the U’ffi June you will find one headed "The Comp run our bund on this matter.” On the 12th June. 1850. the Georgian afte’ tending that portion of the Bill relative to Texas Boundarv makes an observation wl , will apply as wet now as t did they •‘Those whooppoee the Compromise ought at least to adduce some argument. Declamation and hard words will not answer.” The article concludes as follows « “ Wo are still opposed to the amount of Terri tory claimed by California, but as wo really do not see how we are to better ourselves by oppo sing the compromise, and as on ,h ® many other vexed questions trill be settled ny it, we hart come to the conclusion that dough o re ceive the support of the South. Do you think the Democratic Georgian was at that time “bitterly hostile to the Clay Lempro mise 1 Listen to the Georgian of the 24th June lß i?’was defending its position against an assault fromYhe Federal Union of Milledgeville and auoted from the debates in the Senate to prove dial Mr. Haie and that paper opposed the Com promise in common. After quotingfrum Mr. FTale’s speech in which he declared that the Territories were about to be turned into a slave pasture, the Georgian said. “From it will be seen that the Federal Hale oppose the Uoin- pronnse urotinds, and is it not most likmpPthe truth lies half way be tween them, and that there is really a Compro mise between the North and the South ?” Nor was the opinion of the Georgian hastily made up. Towards the close of the article, it said: “We have carefully read all the protracted de bates on this subject and in view of the very great danger threatening our common country, and taking all circumstances in consideration, our deliberate judgment has led us to yield it our humble support• Messrs. Haie and Benton have not convinced us that we are our respected contemporary.” Was not the Georgian a Democratic paper before you became connected with it, and have 1 not adduced proof enough to convince you that all Democrats were not “bitterly hostile” to the Compromise last summer ? I think the change that has occurred in rela tion to the Compromise, is in the Georgian, and not in myself; and that if, as you assert in your paper of the 6th inst., “ the Democrats with scarcely an exception were its enemies,” the Georgian was certainly one of the exceptions. And now, my dear Sir, I turn from your History of the past, to your recent appeal to Democrats to unite with you in the support of your candidate, Charles J. McDonald. Two candidates are presented to the people of Georgia by Conventions, neither of wh'ch was composed of Whigs or Democrats alune, and neither of which was convened as a Whig or Democratic Convention. The supporters of Mr. Cobb affect no concealment upon this sub ject. Whigs and Democrats have united in his support because he sustains the proceedings of the late Georgia Convention, by whose proceed ings the State of Goorgia is pledged to adhere to the Compromise so long as its provisions shall be strictly adhered to by the North and the South, the East and the We.st. Charles J. McDonald has been nominated by a Convention (nameless indeed in its official re port) which, repudiating this Compromise, would open again all the questions settled by it. This is the issue presented to the people of Georgia; but abandoning this issue, you invoke the Democrats to the support of Governor, Mc- Donald, to sustain the principles of the Demo cratic Party. If the advancement of those principles depended upon his elect*on, how does your candidate accept a nomination tendered by Whigs and Democrats in Convention assem bled. Governor McDonald, it is true, has been a Democrat, has been twice elected Governor of Georgia by Democratic votes. Howell Cobb has been a firm, true, and consistent Democrat. Point him to the principles of that party, and he may truly say, “ all these things have I kept from my youth up.” Elected first to Con gress by the Democracy of the whole State, he has since been repeatedly re-elected to that same post by the Democrats of his own district. He has just retired from the chair of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, to which he was elevated by the Democracy of the whole Union. Can you point to one act or one speech in the life of Howell Cobb in which he has been false to the great National Democratic Party ? Now, sir, is that Democrat most consistent with his principles who casts his vole for such a man, or he who votes for one who, as Governor McDonald did, presided over a Con vention which “earnestly recommended to all parties in the non-slaveholding States to refuse to go into or to countenance any national Con vention, whose object may be to nomin ite can didates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States under any party denomi nation whatever." Did not Governor McDonald thus solemnly repudiate the Democratic party of the Union, and are you not invoking Democrats to the support of ono who has thus voluntarily aliena ted himself from that great party? It may be well in this city, (where that party on strict old lines,) is in the majority and in the possession of all the offices, and of a patronage far exceeding that of the Governor of the State, to attempt to rally voters under the old Democratic watch word, but is this the ground on which Governor AMcDonald is supported throughout the State. Do you not mislead your Democratic readers, when you would persuade them that in opposing Mc- Donald they are separating themselves from the Democratic party ? Look, my dear sir, to his nomination ! Whigs and Democrats in Convention assembled and nominated him. Look to his supporters ! Do Whig papers and Whig politicians support him be cause of his Democracy ? While you are invo king Democrats to his support, the Augusta Republic, a Whig paper, in a Whig community, is sustaining him as the Southern Rights can didate. Your candidate is a pure and consistent Dem ocrat, standing on the old Democratic platform, in a Democratic community ; but in a Whig community, he has been washed of this stain and is the true Southern Rights candidate!!! The truth is, and all the sophistry in the world cannot long mask it, the contest about to take place in Georgia, is not to be, and cannot be carried on upon old party lines. I had written thus far when the letter of ac ceptance of your candidate appeared in your pa per this morning. It has saved me all trouble on the subject of old Party lines, and 1 think you will be obliged to retrace your steps and cease to summon old Democrats to support Gov ernor McDonald because he stands on the old Democratic platform. The following sentences from that letter arv deettvv as *** • Gemrcrnen I received to day your letter informing me of my nomination as a candidate for the office of Governor of the State of Geor gia, by “ Southern men, Demccrats and Whigs" recently assembled fin Convention at Milledge ville, and asking my acceptance.” “You will permit me to say, that this voluntary sacrifice of old Party feelings t o the cause of Constitutional freedom, as evinced by the pro ceedings of the Convention, affords the most gratifying evidence (hut the party of the Constitution is determined to sustain the Union of the'States on the principles on which our venerated ancestors, with the blessing ot God, established iu” Not a single allusion is made in this letter to his formet position as a Democrat, or to his standing on the Democratic platform. This is at least prudent in a man who in November last at Nashville had formally cut himself loose from the national Democratic party. The Democratic supporters of Howell Cobb seek no subterfuges. The imminence ot danger to our Federal Union and to the rights of the South, brought together in concert of action, men who on old party issues had been opposed foryears. Tn< y have acted in concert to preserve both. They have buried past differences, to co-operate in the great object of preserving the Union and Southern rights, it is openly avowed that to attain this object, the Party Lines are abandon ed, and will remain so until the danger is past. In the mean time, we can scan with impartiality the action of our Fellow Citizens in the non slaveholding states, and I trust that the weight of our support will hereafter be given to that portion of them which is most conservative of Union and Southern Rights. The question now between the two parties in this State, Isas to the predominance of their respective views relative to the compromise, and the action of the State Convention. As Sir Lucius O’Trigger says, “ It is a mighty pretty quarrel as it stands.” The ballot box will settle the dispute in October next. At that time, 1 hope to be one of the thou sands of Georgia Democrats whose votes will aid in placing Howell Cobb in the Executive (’hair of the State of Georgia. I remain, with great respect, YourObt. Servant, Richard D. Arnold. Georgia anil booth Carolina I’ltral.U, It seems that the ultraists of Georgia cannot be brought up to the South Carolina mark.— They app.uHeh it with a sidling pace, and at the first outcry that they are nearing it, turn their backs llatly upon '• the cnivalry,” and positively disclaim any thing more than a neigh borly acquaintance with them. But so soon aa they think th; i the vigilance of lhe Union men of Georgia is abated, that popular alien lion is temporarily withdrawn from them, or that a local poic may be carried by a violent ape .1 to sectional feel.ng, they are off again in l* ill career of secession movements. Thus uiv.r game tillciuat a s. Thus they change face and make counter tuanmuvres, willing to strike al the Union, and yet tearful of a recoil, winch may work their own annihilation. They know full well that the em.neatly practical people of the great, wealthy, populous and enterprising State of Georgia, will c >t abide lhe vagaries of disunion, or fin the eant phrase of the dav) se cession; and so they wear s mething like an Uuian Uniterm, 'he is ore effectually to serve the purposes ol South Carolina and disuuio n iea>. Thu Savannah Daily Georgian, one of the most violent of ultra organs, in its issue of K'tie'dd, has the following queer evidence ot this: “ While it is tc be expected that the Republican will persist fa a eber-ge, made not “ without reflec tion, ' lba.Gov, Mell nald is a “secessionist,” lhe pablio •tall be advised that il rests, thus rnr, solely upon the aevertiou ol that paper, ruff one particle of prec/ seine ircngf.t /erward to susuirn if. Tiue we are refined to “ the part Gov. McDonald took as ibe President oi the Convention in Macon last veer, where the ery of dimmum was firm raised in Georgia.’’ Thai proves nothing, unless yen can •how that ba favcrably re-ponde.! to, or approved of, ital *s7* -knd ot this you have given, and eongrre, no evidsase. It you have such, we challenge its pro duction. kou can’t produce it, i-ecauae vou haven't get it. Again—his connvcUon with the Nashville Cenvecckai, we are told, makes him a secessionist. Ihcu both pari-.es of Georgia, as represented m lhe lasi Legialalura, are secareiomsre, ta they approved ol lhe bolding of that Convention. Judge Sharkey, who ;• new lauding the isxrpe.-mise. is a seeessioc ist, for he was President of that Convention. Foote hiiuselt ■ a aeceoaiot ivt, for he denounced the charge that be was opposed ;o that C.’nventi -.-i as a calumny of his eacmiee. Bui (says the Republican.) Gov. MoP. s ‘'letters and avowals pwiwiaim him a seces sionist.” Very good. W e like this evidence. It issaoh as can be investigated sod tested and appre ciated. UrutJi ontard then iAcm letlere and aroir- Clt. It written and made, they are stiff in existence and ua be pnxiuce I. Hs dciiy iffir cxwrence. call fartUir prediction." If we uudersiand the clear meaning of the Elnglieh language, the Georgian aeeer's posi tively that iui candidate. Gov. McDonald, tv no secessionist, that is, that he is not. for exiaiing causes, m favor of Georgia seceding from the •niu - e “* UM *‘*l understand by a fair tal' ta ’"Plication, that it repels, in be- Gov M?r».‘ >, f: n ’“ U<>n ,o ’bewe leaderahip beeQ charge •eces-ieu *of ,*'“*’* directly or indirectly, the secessieu ot Georgia from the Union We appeal fa every man of common rente, if tt. se t-e no. fagmmate, necerea y mferen". We ask, then, this question; bet first, we wish to note mat it i. not true that both parties Os Georgra, Judge Sharkey and Gen Fe • e ot ’econd convention at ?***“?• oTer wh ’ c '' <i«v McDonald prosi- , and at which me views and designs of lhe ii'tra sfs were developed in eucli naked de formity rs m provoke the indignant rebuke, not only of the Whig pa ty, but also of the old I no Democracy, the Jackson men of Tcnnes -999 And now. our question is: If Governor McDonald and bis supporters do not seek and desire secession, what do they seek and desire ? Do they or do they not make a demand that their views shall be met, under the penalty of secession ? If they do, are they not secessionists ? We think it would be a difficult task for them to answer these questions, in view of their disclaimer of secession views, frankly and honestly. In fact, we have long since given up all expectation of obtaining frank and manly answers from the ultraists, to these or similar questions. Their game is hum buggery, rant, noisy declamation about “South ern rights,” “craven submission,” “gross wrongs,” “intolerable tyranny,” and such gaseous catch-words as are moat easily sylla oled in air, rung upon the popular ear, and lost to all grasp of memory or understanding. State your position—tell them you will abide by and sustain the Compromise : forth with they scornfully tell you that the Com promise is a ‘ Bill of Spoliation,” a fraud, logalised robbery, a batch of outrages, and that you are a “craven submusionist.” These are fine words, brave words, and it is a matter of intelligent curiosity to know where are our doughty heroes, McDonald, Quitman, Soule, their regular party and irregular “no-party” or gans. To gel at their position promptly, you waive the defence of the Compromise, and ask them : Os course, you are not going to submit to this “Bill ofSpoliat on,” this “fraud,” this “legalized robbery,” this “batch of outra ges ?” You are gallant gentlemen. We have your own volunteered testimony to your own spirited chivalry ; you chant your terrific war song daily, aud are as “terrible as an army with banners” to peace loving, quiet citizens you certainly are not going to acquiesce ? Os course not. You will secede? No? You are not secessionists ? How then, in the name of wonders, are you going to resist? This is the most tantalizing of all unanswered and unanswerable questions. This stubborn, un resolved “how” makes the fire eating heroes the walking mysteries of their age and laud, the select aud incomprehensible illuminati of the world of politics ; or, in more popular phrase, the American Pickwickians of the nineteenth century. Gov. McDonald is not a secessionist. Oh, of course not! He aud those like him are queer bipeds ; it would puzzle Buffon to class them under any known species. But the Convention which nominated him, formally declared, that “the Southern States, being a minority iu Federal numbers, have been de prived by high hand of their interests in the territories acquired from Mexico, have been degraded from their condition of equality in the Union, have been forced to surrender ter ritory, unquestionably and legitimately their own, to the use ana enjoyment of the hireling States, ’’etc. Here is a distinct declaration, that iu the opinion of the McDonaldiies, the Southern States (Georgia included) have been oppressed robbed, degraded. Well, (waiving all contrary argument) what are you going to do about n, gentlemen ? Elsewhere, and at the same time, you formally resolved that every “Slate in view of the voluntary nature of the Union, has the right, iu virtue of its independence and sovereignty, of seceding from the Union whenever the people thereof, in their sove reign capacity, shall determine sue » a step to be necessary for their safety or happiness.” Well, you gentlemen fire-eaters, who are so ready to cast the charge of “craven sub mission” into the teeth of those who acquiesce in the compromise, because they believe it nut diahonorabla to ary section or State, —what are you, most doughty heroes, going to do, who believe it dishono. able to your section and State ? VViil you not exercise that “se cession” which y° u solemnly affirm to be a “sovereign righ t? ” You will not—you are no secessionists? What,then, in the name of common se. se, wiH you do ? What are you ? If yon are blind, who shall follow you upon dark paths which lead you know not whither? If you speak vague, meaningless oracles, who will go with you into the trackless desert? You are not secessionists or disunionists, say you in one breath ; in the next, you solemnly affirm the right of secession, swear you have been robbed, cheated, degraded ; and yet (Christian and forbearing souls ?) you will not exercise your ostentatiously paraded “right” to vindicate your “safety or happiness.” You are not secessiouis s! You are the most sovereign of humbugs—the most senseless of noisy agitators—the veriest of cowards who ever walked beneath the sun, breathed fresh air, or whined their fancied agonies upon the winds ; and you are so, because you continu ally claim the “right of secession,” and dare not advocate that exercise of it, in default of which you say you are robbed, cheated and disgraced. This is the picture presented by the Georgia uliraists, and we must confess that, in com parison with them, the South Carolina ultra ists are as Hyperion to a Satyr- There is sornetuing bold and manly in the South Caro* lina ultraists. If they claim secession as “a sovereign right/’ unlike the Georgia ukraists, they are not afraid to exercise it as such ; if they say they have been cheated, robbed, dis graced, unlike Georgia ukraists, they are not afraid to say they will not abide in the same political community with thus who they fancy have cheated, robbed, and o' graced them. There is something almost redeeming in this ; something different from the timid and yet boatful, truculent and yet threatening, ui'.ia and yet vague and shapeless policy of McDon ald, Quitman, Soule, and their regular party and irregular “independent ’ no party echoes With tho South Caioliniana. agitation is some thing more than a precious and discreditable humbug to draw Whig voters into the sup port of Democratic candidates, and to aid John Van Buren, Sumner, Ranta al, and Rm. Naw YarS. EvenFhg/rost, in breaking dbwn “the present National AJininistration.”--2V O. Hullelin. What thi McDonald party would do if it had a Majority.—We are sometimes in dehted to letters written from this State for a clue to lhe real sentiments of the Disunionista amongst im. We find, for example, a letter in the South Carolina Spartan, copied into the Charleston Mercury, from a Dieunionist in this State, which declares that the ' Southern Righfw” party here and throughout the South, are only waiting for South Carolina to lend off. The writer fur 1 tier says : “If we had a bare majority in Georgia, w would hare seceded; and as you have n !ar*je major ity in South Carolina, why do you hesitate? Delays aie dengerou®— hesitation is ruin.” So it appears that all the McDonald party want is * a bare majority." and it will force Georgia to “srckdk.” Let the people be ware how they cast their suffrages in October. If (hey elect Me Donald as their Governor and send “a bare majority” of “Southern Rights” men to the Legislature, they must expect se cession. Are they prepared for such madness! If not, let them elect Howell Cobb, and a majority of Union men — Sav. Hep The Great Flood on thk Mississippi The St. Louis papers come to us with extended details of the ravages of the great flood on the Mississippi, some accounts of which we have already had by telegraph: The St. Louis Times nf Monday, the 9ih, slates that the water wan then 33 feet 4 inches above low wafer mark, and still rising, being within 5 feet 3 inches of the mark of lhe great flood of 1844. The bottom opposite North St. Louts was also flooded, and nearly all the families have taken refuge in the sixth ward. It was estimated that, fiom one thousand to twelve hundred persons—men. women and children—have been landed from the opposite shore, destitute of everything needful tor the preservation of health, and were in the occupa tion of lhe Sturgeon market. The depth of water on the Levee store floors at St. Louis was from 24 to 28 inches, in all the cross streets running to the levee, the water had passed from ten to thirty feet beyond the levee front of buildings. In the lower part of the town, the water had backed up for several squares, rendering some of the s.reels impas sable. Arsenal Island and Duncan’s Island were entirely inundated, a® was also Bloody Island, except the extreme northern nnd south ern points. in lllinoistown, the destruction was immense Many of the ouddings had been undermined and swept away. The current had wa-hed a channel around lhe eas ern end of the Bloody Island dyke, and a heavy body of water was parsing through the town into Cahokia creek At lhe American Bottom, a few high points were left between the mam river and the bluffs. Al Papp’s town there was a title ground left uncovered by water, but for miles around the country presents lhe appeaiauce of a great lake. Thousands of farms border ing on lhe upper streams were reported by steamboat captains as entirely under water, and their improvements and stock swept awav —an amount of loss, to repair which will re quire the labor of years. The Hannibal (Mo.) Union says: Consid erable damage will be done in this city/.hough nothing to compare with less eleva ed places above and below us. From many quarters we hear of the most xiistressing scenes, ac companied by great loss of property. In one house at Tully, it is reported that there are seven faurlies, buddled together into the upper stories. The rest sil Jriven from their homes. At Alexandria the water is said to be up to the second stories. Marion city, of course, is completely submerge L not a foot of dry land being anywhere visible. The Attorney General’s opinion ou lhe subject of the Florida treaty claims was finally rendered to the President on Saturday. The claimants are, by this opinion, which the Presi dent and members of lhe Cabinet will abide by, remit’ed co Congress for farther legtsla*ion to carry ont lhe provisions oi the treaty of 1819. The opinion strongly sets forth the obliga tions of the Government to pay for injuries done to individual property by our troops, who had ruthlessly laid waste whole piauiatious, burnt houses, destroyed crops, and produced a general famine among the inhabitants. I’ also considers that the awards made by the Florida Territorial courts, for interest upon the ascertained value of property destroyed, from the time of its destrue'ion till the date of the decree, are just, and ought to be paid; but it holds that the Government has no authority, under exts ing acts, to par them. Such seems the opinion of every preceding Secretary of the Treasury on the subject. ft was proposed, some time ago. by the claimants, that the cases should be referred to the United States District Court of Florida for readjudicaiion ; but this is thought unnecessa ry,and would not vary the ultimate decision of the present Administration on the subject. Congress mast authorise the payment of in terest or damages before the Administration will make the payment, though they thiuk the claimants entitled to it. The amount involved iu the claims is about nine hundred thousand dollars. Senators \uieeaod Berrien are among lhe chiei agents and counsel for the claimants. Mr Corwin was oue of the counsel, but re- linqui«hed all connexion with the case previ- 1 oils to taking office— Journal of Commerce. Tiir wrrxrT v IXI Ju YY JuJlIxJLi 1 CHRONICLE & SENTINEL BY WILLIAM S. JONEF? TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. DAILY, TR (-WEEKLY & WEEKLY. Railroad Rank Buildings. DAILY PAPER,perannum (sentby mail,) 00 TRIWEEKLY “ “ 400 WEEKLY PAPER •• 2 00 AUGUSTA, GA.: WEDKESDAY MORNING.. JUNK US. TRAVELLING AGENTS. Mr. J. E. Wells and Mr. A. P. Burr, will ac as Travelling Agents for tbs Cnronicle & Senti nel and Southern Cultivator. Any assistance that our friends in the various counties may furnish the segentlemcn, toward increasing our eircu Shod, will be thankfully received. THE CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL FOR THE CAMPAIGN. As we are diiposed to contribute all in our power to the establishment of sound principles in the success of “The Constitutional Union Party,” we propose to send (he WEEKLY CHRONICLE & SENTINEL, till the 15th of October, to CLUBS OF TEN SUBSCRIBERS for FIVE DOLLARS a Club. The Cash must always accompany the order. This will afford our friends throughout the State an opportunity to place the paper in the hands of thousands of voters, who would not otherwise probably read a paper. And if they estimate, as we do, the importance of the pre sent canvass, they will promptly adopt the ne cessary measures to aid ns in our effort to en ighten the voters of Georgia as to ihe dangers which threaten the Constitution and Union. Mr. Cobb's Acceptance. As the non appearance of Mr. Cobb's let ter, accepting the nomination as the candididate of the Constitutional Union party for Gover nor, has elicited some inquiry, and perhaps anxiety, on the part of his friends, we deem it proper to give the following explanation of the “Southern Banner,” the editor of which is, no doubt, correctly informed on the subject: “Some of the disunion prints having alluded to the delay of Mr. Cobb’s acceptance of the nomi nation for Governor tendered to him by the Consti tutional Union Convention, we feel at liberty to say that it has been occasioned by his not having yet re ceived a coiiiinunication from the committee appoint ed to notify him of his nomination. This has result ed, no doubt, from u failure of the channel of commu nication.’' We may, therefore, reasonably conclude that the committee will promptly address him again, and that his reply will be before the public atari early day. Dr. Arnold's Letter. The le'terfrom R. D. Arnold, of Savan nah, to the Georgian, which we publish this morning, will attract the reader's attention. Dr. A. has long bjen a distinguished Demo crat, and is now equally prominent in his ad vocacy and support of the Canstiturional Union parly, and as the reader will perceive vindicates himself with much ability, and very •ticcessfully, against the misrepresentations of his poeition by the Georgian The truth is, we presume, the has so successfully boxed the political compass on the compromise question, that it is exceedingly delighted with ths hope, however slight, of in volving others in the same inconsistency. The effort, in Dr. Arnold’s case, is certainly very unfortunate. The fetter should be read by every Union Democrat in the State. Nomination of Mr. Toombs. It will be seen by reference to the proceed ings, that the Congressional Convention of the Union party, of the Eighth District, have nominated the Hon. Robert Toombs as their candidate for Congress. We but speak the universal sentiment of the party throughout the district, in sayiag that this nomination was eminently due to Mr. T. for his distinguished services in the councils of the nation, indeed, so general was this wish, that no other individual was thought of or looked to by the party. The Convention have therefore but expressed the public will—which is as creditable to the intelligent constituency whom they represented, as it will be grateful to Mr. Toombs, upon they nave pronounced “ Well done good and Jaithful servant." Nzw Post Offices in Georgia.—The Post Master General has established (he following new Post Offices tn this State: Millvil’e, Cherokee co. —Ira R. Poster, P. M. Skitl’s Mountain, Hall co.—Ashford Quinn, P. M. The name of Buncombe, in Walker county, has been change«l to L<i?ar>Rville. Connecticut Senator.—The have thus far failed to elect a U. S. Senator. The Senate elected Baldwin, but the House could not mane a choice, and again postponed the election till Wednesday, the 25th inst. Dr. M. G. Slaughter, of Marietta, is the Union candidate for Senator from the District composed of Cobb aud Cherokee counties.— Gen. J. S. Anderson is his opponent. Mississippi.—At the latest dates from Jack sun the Convention had met to nominate a disunion candidate for Guvernor. It was thought Governor Quitman would be nomina ted by acclamation. z\ll the members of the late Congiess are candidates for re election. They are opposed by Union candidates. D. B. Nabors opposes Jacob Thompson in the First ; John A. Wil cox opposes W. S. Featherston in the Sec ond; John D. Freeman opposes J. W McWil lie in the Third, and A. B Dawson opposes A. G. Brown in the fourth. All the candi- dates, on both sides, are Democrats. Fining British Vks«klb. —The New York Com mercial Advertiser sayt; An order was received at New York from Wash ington, on Thursday, tn honzhig the reminesion of the penalty ofconfisc?ti n imposed upon the captains of shij-e Coriolam r , /us ralia, and Essex, inciir led by an intrartihn c the passenger laws. The ships are restored, <-n i • fine of 825 and costs of prosecution only i n I, with the promise that they will never bring an excess ot emigrants again. There were inur«thar vessels also fined, making an aggregate of 82,40 U. The cap’ains of 18 more Brit ish vessels were also indicted at New York on Thursday, for the rame offence. We are tru’y ; ratified to perceive that the laws are likel { to be enforced against those vessels that have so disregarded them, as well as the laws of tvimaDity, in the transportation of emigrants. To this cause, and this alone, is to be ascribed the untimely d ath of so many thousands of th"* e poor creatures, and the in troduction into r uiny of our porta of that most fatal disease. Shin Fever. We trust now that a commenceiuen baa been made, no officer or vessel will be permitted to go unpunished, that shall violate the law. Severe Hail Storm.—The following ex tract from a private letter to a gentleman of this city gives an account of a severe hail storm ; Leximgtom Depot, June 17. We were yesterday evening visited by the im«t terrific and destructive Wind and Hail storm, that il has ever been our misfortune to see. Our crops ot Oats and Cotton are a perfect wreck. Cotton on our place cannot make aa ounce to the acre. We are gratified tot eiieve it was not extensive. Yours truly. Nashville awd Chattanooga Railroad. The Nashville Banner of the 17th inat. lays: The Railroad is now completed to within two miles of Murfreesboro’, 30 miles distant from Nssaville, and will be done to Murfreesboro* in about ten days more. The cars pass up and down every day A friend who want up Saturday, says the noveltv is still so great that he way side is thionged with curious specta tors, and at the Murfreesboro’ terminus the crowd on that day could hardly be beat by a “ camp-meeting.” There were about 150 passengers Two cows were killed—run over by the cars—and a negro, who had, un perceived, got on the “ bumper,” was thrown ntf while under full headway and nearly killed. We may look out for a few acciden ts Recovery of Fugitive Slaves.—The Cin cinnati Commercial of the 6;h inst., says that night before last, the slaves who made their escape from Rev. Mr Perry and others in Covington a few nights since, were arrested by persons on this side, taken over to their owners, who received them and paid over the reward offered (4MOO ) The slaves say they were enticed away bvpersons from Ohio. Bask of East Tekmksskk.—The Knoxville Whig of the 7th says : ‘ There has been a per fect row in the East Tennessee Bank, for the last few days between Mr. Fisk, a large stock holder and the Directors, the particulars of which we will give next week. The holders of the notes need entertain no fears, for they are good and will remain so, beyond ail doubu The Kight ol Secession. The disuniouisls seem dispose ! to lay great stress upon the abstract rieht of a State to secede from the Union. If the disunionists wish to discuss it bh a mere abstraction, they propose to indulge in useless waste ol time. If tfagy re ally think of resistance to the General Government tts a practical issue, then, we commend them to the fourth resolution of the Georgia Platform, which sets forth the true position of the Union party o f the State. In that resolution, they will find no quibbling, no shirking of responsi bility, no dodging of the halter. Ft boldly avows the right of revolution, and proclaims the causes for which the people of Georgia will resist the Government; and all they ask is, that when the time of trial comes, the Fire Eaters mey follow where the Union men lead! It is rather too late in the day for Judge Mc- Donald and his followers to be raising new issues, and particularly abstract issues. It indicates a want of nerve, a want of confidence in their own disunion platform. It is a species of (political transcendental ism, unworthy of this utilitarian age.— Journal <)• Messenger. As the fourth resolution referred to in the above paragraph—although recently published by us—may not be fresh in the recollection of all our readers, wo reproduce it for their in formation. Here it is: Fourthly. Resolved, That the State of Georgia, in the judgment of «his Convention, will and ought to resist, even {as a last resort.) to a disruption of every tie which binds her to the Union, any action of Con gress, upon the subject of slavery in the District of Columbia, or in places subject to the jurisdiction of Congress, incompatible with the safety, the domestic tranquility, the rights and the honor of the slave holding Statenr any act suppressing the slave trade between riavehoiding States, or any refusal to admit as a Slate any territory hereafter applying, because of the existence cf slavery therein; or any act pro hibiting the introduction of slaves into the territories of Utah anti New Mexico; or any act repealing or materially modifying the laws now in force for the recovery of fugitive slaves. Thia resolution embraces the corner stono upon which Southern Rights are based, and by which Southern institutions may be se cured. In it are openly and broadly declared and enforced, the groat principle of the right to dissolve the government, and the duty of the patriot to do it, whenever that government shall attempt to do certain things, which the people of Georgia regard as too great an out rage upon their rights and property to be borns. VVhatmoro can the disunionists ask, if they are sincere in theii desire to have the abstract tight of secession acknowledged by the people ? Ijye it is proclaimed in its broadest. m.ost comprehensive sense, and has been to' endorsed by them in their approval of the action of the Conven tion which adopted the resolution. It is clear therefore, that all their clamor about the right of secession ie a mere trick to gain power, which, when gained, they hope to use for the purposes of dissolving the government, and in connexion with the South Carolina dis uoionists, with whom they sympathise, to form a Southern Confederacy. They know too well the devoted patriotism ol the people of Georgia not to know, if they declare their real purposes, they are doomed to an over whelming and ignominious defeat. Hen e this ruse, and this effort indirectly, b/ a clamor about the right of secession, to accomplish that which they dare not attempt directly, or openly avow as their purpose. A Pointed Reply* An old fashioned Jackson Democrat, iu the Natchez Conner, thus responds to the taunts of some of his former friends who charged him with having changed : “ I have been repeatedly taunted of late, by one or two of my old democratic friends, (as they say,) with having fallen from the g od old iaitb ot lhe Democracy. Now, sir, lam a man of few words in politics, —being a working-man. If I have changed, then our faithful friends throughout the whole country have changed. lam sure that lam with Senator Cass on the Union question ; I am with the “Washington Union,” our old faithful paper on the watch-tower of freedom ; I am with Senator W.R. King of Alabama, with Howell Cobb of Geor gia, and with the raaj>rity of democrats in every Slate of this Republic. It is true that a few have branched off from the Democracy, in this and other States, calling themselves Southern Kights men, but their seceding has not made me change, if they are attempting to engraft a uew shoot upon the old democratic tree, ray resisting tlieir efforts does not make me less a democrat. Their attempt to read me out of the party, because I will not consent to add to its creed, a doctrine which Andrew Jackson repudiated and crushed, is but ridiemous. Who made the isms of South Carolina a text book of De mocracy ? Certainly none of the fathers of that faith, nor any of the National Conventions which have proclaimed its opinions. I am, where I have ever been, for the Union of these States, and bitterly opposed to anything like secession or nullification. A Jackson Democrat. The Right of Secession. As the questions, whether secession is “a constitutional right ” or one reserved by the States, and therefore independent of the Con stitution, are now discus-ed with great appa rent earnestness and zeal by lhe disunionists and their organs in Georgia, most of whom proclaim it a “constitutional right,” it may not be improper to submit tho following very orthodox and catholic opinion of the Charles ton Mercury, whose orthodoxy in such matters, we presume the party and its organs in Geor gia will not question. It is very seldom that we concur in lhe Mer cury's opinions upon political or constitutional questions, as i s uhraism almost always leads it tio nee the general rule, and we therefore commend its views to the considera tion of its sympathisers in Georgia. It is proper to remark that the Mercury in troduces the opinion in a brief commendatory notice cf a speech delive-ed by Mr. Kkitt, of Orangeburg, before the “ Southern Rights Association ” of liuit District, m which the right of secession was proclaimed “ a constitu tional right,' 1 from which lhe Mercury thus disaen*®: “ lu one particular we should qualify our entire assent to the viuwsof the speaker, (hough we do not suppose that wo really differ from him. We refer to ii is assertion that •‘secession is a constitutional right.” Properly speaking, the Constitution emb dos the rights of the Federal Government, not the rights of the States. To the latter belong all the powers and right* that are not surrendered to the former. On this point we find what we consider the true statement of the case in a speech delivered in the North < aroli na Senate at its lata session, by the Hon. Win. B. Shepard. In reply to an opponent who had relied on Mr. Clay’s profound discovery that there could be no right of Feeession because it was cot specified in the Coustilu-iMii, Mr. Shepard • id: The gentleman from Guilford looks into the Con stitution of the United Stales, not to find what rights his constituents have surrendered, but what rights have been guaranteed to them. Leaving the gen tleman to settlo this important point with his con stituents, 1 wik repeat what I have already stated, I have never contended for secession as a right de rived from or guaranteed by the Constitution. I said in my resolutions submitted at the commence ment of the sc ssion, “that the right to secede from it (the Union) ie a right of self-defence and protec tion which the people of North Carolina have never surrendered, and n ver can surrender. wi<b due re gard to their own safety and welfare.” This propo sition I row maintain, and have heretofore main tained on the floor of the Senate, as in strict conformi ty with the theory of our Government}; an! if it has nut been surrendered by the people, it is unquestion ably reserved to them. Mr. Boyce’s Speech. The Hamburg Republican contains lhe speech of W. W■ Boyck, written out by himself, delivered before the meeting of citi zens in Hamburg, from which we cull the fol lowing extracts : “ We complain of the acts of Congress, known as the comprumue measures, the prohibition of the slavs marts in the district of Columbia, the purchase of the Texas boundary, and tile admission of Cali fornia. These are the acts for which we are urged to secede. “ Let us look at these acts calmly. The first, except that its indication of a hobt'le spirit to the insti tution ot slavery, is of no practical importance. “ If the same act had been passed by Maryland in regard to Biltiinore, or by Virginia in regard to R ehmoud, it would nut have created the slightest interest. “ The purchase of the Texas territory, being made by lhe consent of Texas, precludes other States from objecting. The Wilmot Proviso has not been ap plied to this territory. “The Measure to which the most serious objec tions can be raised is the adtn'asion of California, and the objections are more of form than eubstaiice. All the South claimed was the extension of the Mis souri comptomise line to the Pacific, had thia been done, we could not have had a concession made to us on the point of equality, but I believe it wonld ha»e piactically worked to our injury. The re mit would have been that South California would have become a Free State, and we would have had two Free States, then, instead Or one. And this because of the immense distance to California and rhe danger of taking siavas there where they w..uld ue surroun ded by tree St a tea i have taken this view oF the Compromise measures, not for the purpose of ex honora'ing .hex, but to see them exactly aethey are, and I do tt<H think they are of such au outrageous character aa necessarily to imply a submission on the part of the Southern people to every aggression. “Acquiescence in the paat, by no means forbids the idea of resistance in the future. ‘•I think we have exaggerated the aggression of the Compromise measures, and by so doing, we have unintentionally rated the rpirit of the South too low. If the compromise measures were really as outra geous and aggres?ive as they have been represented and considered in this State, we <rigLt well dispair oi the South for acquiescing in them, but when we consider calmly what the Compromise measures ac tually are, we have no reason to dispair of the South, because of their acquiescence.’' From the tone and temper of this extract we apprehend Mr B. will be charged by the duunionigia in South Carolina as a “aubmis sionist,” “unsound*’ and “rotten to the core” on the Southern question Dkpahtc'RE of the Pacific .--The U. S Mai! steam ship Pacific, Capt. Nye, left New York Saturday for L verpool. She taken! out $928,000 in American gold and £6ou in Eng Ihh gold. She has one hundred and sixty-eeven passengers. Among them is Fletcher Webster, Esq , bearer of des patches to London and China. He proceeds from England to lhe latter country by the over land route. The MtMtssipPi.—At Memphis, on lhe 17th inti., the river within one foot of the high ret water marß of the past season, and rising slowly. It was within thirty inches of the great rise in 1841. We are autnonzed u s’ate that the South Carolina Rsii Road Company have eelared a dividened for the last six months of three and a half percent, being an advance of hah per cent, cq the previous six months. — Ch. C—ritr Tike Policy of the Disuikionists. Thz following rernnrks, which wo clip from the Franklin (Tenn.)Revuw, will give the rea<l era ‘bird’s eye’ view of the canvass for Govern or in Tennessee. The same g'ound is occupied by the Disunion party of Tennessee, and the same argument used to blind the people with regard to their ulterior purposes, that are em ployed by that parly in Georgia. They profess to be very devoted to the Union , while they are daily agitating the question of secession ; they are willing to submit to the Compromise measures, while they are daily denouncing them as unconstitutional, and a fraud upon the people of the South. Verily, they are the veri est submissionists in the country. They cer tainly must place a very low estimate on the intelligence of the people of Georgia, if they expect to deceive them by such flimsy subter fuges as they are attempting to play oil* before them. But hear what the Banner says of the party in Tennessee : <* Thb Speaking.—On Saturday last, pursuant to appointment, Governor Trousdale and Colonel Campbell addressed a very large assembly nt this place, in the beautiful grove in front of the residence of Major Wm. Maney, the use of which had been kindly tendered by its patriotic proprietor. We have never witnessed a political meeting where more quiet or fixed attention prevailed. The counte nance of every individual showed that lu had come thereto hear what each had to s.iy, ami to understand their positions. For a pretty lull synopsis of the speeches, we refer our readers to another column. As we had anticipated from previous reports, the great weight of Governor 'I rousdale's speech was levelled at the Compromise, while that of Colonel Campbell sustainsit. Evcrv line glows with devo tion to the Union. The question is now fairly made in this State, Compromise or no Compromise, with all its terrible consequences. In Mississippi and in Georgia the parties are organized, and their candi dates in the field. The question is Compromise and Union, or no Compromise and Disunion. The di4- unionists have heretofore looked uj>on Tennessee as standing upon doubtful ground. They have some hopes, however, that a powerful effort may yet swing her from the line of duty, and give them a foothold within her borders. It was with (his view that Nashville was selected as the point for congrega ting all the spirits of disunion in the notorious Nash ville Convention. It was with this view that the open and avowed enemies of the Union in the con vention were silent, and those not so far committed thrust forward to assume more moderate positions, and put a more deceptive face upon their real senti ments. The dose was considered too bitter for Tennessee ans at first blush, but long coaxing and deep decep tion, it was hoped, might finally triumph. The tree could not be planted at once, but the seed might be sown that would hereafter germinate and strike its roots deep in our soil. Their eyes are upon us now, eagerly watching the result of their machinations. Every word uttered against the Compromise is trea sured up as a favorable<»men of final success. What ever may be the real sentiments of Governor Trous dale, if he continue throughout the canv«3ss to attack the principles of the Compromise, and finally suc ceed in being elected Governor of the State, the in evitable conclusion will be that Tennessee condemns the Compromise. It will be a triumph to fill the hearts of disunionists of the North and South with ’oy and gladness. A yell of exultation will burst from their ranks which will be echoed throughout the land; and wa venture the prediction that Ten nessee will be feet down as a convert to their princi ples. As we have before said, Goverrcr Trousdale may not intend such a result. Although day by day be applies the terrible torch, he may not intend to destroy the edifice. But when dissatisfaction with the Compromise is engendered ; when men have learned to hate it, and look U|>on it as an insult to their honor, aud an outrage upon justice; when, by the influence of his speeches, he has accomplished al! that he contends for- what is the reiredy he proposes? The wisdom and ingenuity of patriots and statesmen were exhausted in the passage of these bills ; it was the best and all (hat could be done under the peculiar circumstanced of the case. The people, we believe, are disposed to sustain them and give them their hearty support. They must be sustained or the Union dissolved. Aw Unadulterated Submissionist. —The term “submissioiiist’’ is often applied as an opprobrious epithet to the Union rten. But the most unadulterated specimen we have seen is furnished in Judge Bragg, the candidate, “of all opposed to the Compromise,” for Con gress in the Mobile District, and who in a re cent discussion before the people is said to have “abused the compromise, but was not for secession, not for resi.-tance ; and is repotted to have said at Claiborne that he is “ior laying down quietly and swallowing it all.” We call this pretty tame submission doctrine.” The J’idge is in the same category with his disunion brethren in Georgia He is willing to acquiesce in (he compromise—opposed to secession for past offences —would not secede, oh, no, on no account oft he compromise—but is exceedingly anxious to have “ the right of sA cession ” avowed by the people. How su premely ridiculous! Os what value is the mere avowal of this right without any inten tion to exercise it? If such an avowal be of no practical value—and we presume no sane mind will assert that it is—then where the ne cessity for such an avowal until the period for the exercise of the right shall have arrived ? We greatly mistake, if these agitators and disunionists in disguise, do not greatly under estimate the intelligence of the people, in supposing they can successfully practice the trick they are attempting, by clamoring so vociferously fi r a declaration by the people in favor of the right of sacessi <n. Mississippi--Quitman Nominated* Yesterday’s mail brought us the intelligence nomination of Gen. Quitman, by tho Disunion Convention at Jackson, as their can didate for Governor. The subjoined notice of the Convention and its proceedings, from the “.SozMron.” publish ed at Jackson, confirms fully the previous ac counts we have received of (he subdued true Gen. Quitman and his party have found it necessary to observe before (he people of the State in ihe present canvass. I*, will, however, avail them little—the people are quite familiar with their avowed purpose to dissolve tho gov ernment if they can obtain power; and the course and sentiments of Gen. Quitman and his adherents are too fresh in the recollection of the people, lor them to suffer themselves to be seduced into their support by any affec tation of moderation at this late day : “ We have not yet seen the resolutions adopted by the convention, which we understand are to be regarded as their platform, but we have the most decided assurance, that they are softened an ’ modi fied so much in tone and sentiment, from the former high pretent-ions cf the resisters, that it would be very difficult to recognise this class of politician?, at all, especially as they were manifested in their re solutions an I addre see but a few brief weeks One prevailing sentiment, eo far ts we can infer from facts known to exist, was, logo as fir in their favorite Secession movement. as it might be thought, the people would stand. To give our readers tome conception of this policy of the conven tion, we mention a fact, for illustration. On Tues day, after the nomination? were all made and settled, the committee on resolutions, reported a set of reso lutions, and an address, to go forth to the people of the State, a? their programme of principles. In this address sotuetaiug like the following was avowed: “We believe tint the aggressions on Southern rights, are sufficiently numerous an I grievous, to justify secession ; and that the Slate would immediately secede, but for certain stringent and urgent State necessity ” This part of the ad dress called forth some spicy remarks from mem bers, and in the end, it was recommitted with the resolutions to the committee, e* as to re-dress it, in such form and comeliness, as to make it a favor ite with the people ; or at least, so to change its language, as to leave its real principles and purposes, concealed from the view of the puplie The address and resolutions were accordingly recommitted, but the former document was not reported. The resoluiiois nude their appearance—but so did not the address. We are therefore left with t c resolutions alnne, as the basis of that policy, and as the expo-ent of tho c principles, which are to charscteriec the resisting party in Mis-isaippi, du ring the present contest.” Art Union Kngravings. We are indebted to H. W. Fargo, Honora ry Secretary of the American Art Union As -ociation, for a copy of the Engraving for 1851 ; “Aww Paue, Slemder and Shallow,” also a copy of No. 1 of the Gallery of Amer ican Art. containing five splendid line Engra vings on Steel for the same year. The Art Union offers to subscribers the pres sent year tbe following splendid inducements : 1. A copy of each No. of the Bulletin, illustrated, with etchings, from the tune of tubscript ion. 2. A eory of Jones’ Line Engraving from Wood vii e’a Painting wf Mexican News, 19 by 21 inches. 3. One set of 5 Prims of American History. 4. A --hare in the distribution of several hundred Paintings, Sculptures, and drawings in water colors by eminent artists. The Engravings themoe’ves are richly worth the subscription of five dollars, without ilie chance of drawing a magnificent picture by some of the be;t American Artis’s. The patrons of the Fine Arts, need not be told that the object of tbe Art Union Associa tion is the improvement of the Arts inAmeri ca, a m<.Bt laudable object, and one certainly which commends it to their patronage. Subscriptions rn sy be made to H. W. Far go of this city. A Leper —The following account of a 1 e per, from the pen of Mr. Counter, a late trav eler in the East, will afford our readers a pretty correct notion of the appearance of the sufferers by that strange disease : “One evening, while strolling along the sea shore, I saw such an extraordinary object before me, that I could not take my eves offofit. It was a man, whose clothing, like that of all the lower orders of India, was a piece of cloth wrapped round the body, from the waist downward. His skin wag perfectly white, and seemed glazed, 8« if sear ed with a hot iron. His head was uncovered, and his hair wnieh was precisely the same colors? the akin, hung down in long strips upon his lean and withered shoulders. His eyes, with the exception of the ball?, were a dull murky red. and he kept them fixed on the ground, as if it were painfnl for him to look up, which I onnd to be the case. He walked slowly and feebly, and he was so frightfully thin that he seemed to stand Before me a liv ing ske'eton. 1 moved toward him, but he walked farther from me, beseeching me to give the smallest trifle to a miserable old man —an outcast from his home and friends. He told me not to come near to a pollute I crea tore, for whom no one felt pity. He told me he bad during many years, suffered dreadfully from the leprosy, and though he was now cured, the corpse like whiteness of his skin gave unmistakable epdence .hat he hadj once been a leper. The ’li cusury Department* The A’. I Jwru.d tjf Commerce pays the fol lowing trihu ■ o th- skill and ability with which Mr. C< nr.in conducts the business of his department: The Department of the Treasury is now better or ganized, and the administration of its duties is more prompt and efficient than formerly. It was noticed some months ago, in our Washington correspondence, (bat Mr. Corwin was engaged in an examination of the several Bureaus of the Treasury, with a view to improve their man •gement, and that in his own office he ba<i made beneficial changes. We now learn that he has g>t the Department in good trim. Formerly, as every one knows, business of impor tance- might be brought before the department, and then he without attention for weeks and months, and even for years. Merchants used, in many instances, to be obliged to write to the Department some twenty or thirty letters, on the same business, and even then, perhaps without a reply. It was the custom to evade the responsibility of decisions by simply filing payers and applications. As to the several Bureaus, their business was generally two or three years behind band. Such, indeed, continued to be the condition of the Department until after the termination of the last Congress. But now every letter that is receiv ed meets with prompt acknowledgment. Mr. Cor win has directed that every day’s mail shall bo at tended toon the day of its receipt. White the current business is thus promptly dis patched, nearly the entire business of two or three years’ accumulation has been brought up, and the whole of it soon will be. It is, as we learn, the in tention of Mr. Corwin that the Department, in all its parts, and especially in bis own office, shall dispatch business as promptly and as thoroughly us is dune in a merchant’s counting house. Mr. Corwin has issued un order, which is to be u standing rule, that clerks and officers of the Depart ment shall be at their desks from eight til! fair, and longer when necentwry to di.-patcb the current business. The Public will I e much obliged to Mr. Curwin for the accomplishment ol these needful official re forms. Letter from President Fillmore The Boston papers o! Friday contain the fol lowing letter from President Fillmdre, ad dressed to the Common Council of that city. Washington, June 9, 1851. Hon. Francis Ihinlty, President of the Common Council of the City of Boston : Sit—When I hud the pleasure of meeting you and your associates ».l the Committee from Boston, in N. York, and you di I me the hor>nr of inviting me to visit your c ty, and kindly tendered me, on behalf of the Common Council, its hospitalities, 1 fondly hoped that I should be able during the present month u» ac cept your invitation. But I regret to say that I find it inconsistent w|th what i deem my public duty io indulge in this gratification ; and, therefore, I am profoundly grateful for the distinguished honor implied by the iiivitat on, I feel reluctantly com pelled to decline it. My personal acqur.intan c in your city is but slight, but slight as it t*.«B been, it has left many pleasant recollections, and I should have been extremely hap py to have renewed and extended it al this time. 1 have long entertained a high iexpect for the intelli gen co and patriotism of the gr-at mass ol your citi zens ; and recent events have n t impaired that in spect. You have been, and i mist ev.-r will be, a law-loving aid a law abid ng people. I know that your devotion to this great principle has had a severe test in your recent efforts to execute the law for the return of fugitive slaves. Slavery, in any form, is repugnant to your feelings and education, and the fugitive naturally and inevitably excites your deepest sympathy. Nothing but a stern sense of duty, foun ded upon a rational, solemn conviction, that a consti tutional and legal obligation must be obeyed, at any and every sacrifice, could have insured the execution of law in a case like this. But, for myself, I never doubted that the law would ultimately triumph.— Good faith is the foundation of all morality and all social society. The free States had pledged them selves by the Constitution to ’lie performance o« this duty. The slave States had a right to insist, and did in sist, upon its perform nice. There was, then, no al ternative but to break our faith, forfeit our word of honor, and thereby trample the Constitution of our country in the dust, and run the hazards of a civil war; or else to admit the obligation like honest, true-heaned men, and do ail in our power to comply withit—still hoping and trusting that in due time some m ?de would be devised, by those who Lave the constitutional power to abolish slavery, and who are most deeply interested in its final extinction—to get rid of the evil without destroying die fairest fabric of freedom that mortal bauds have ever raised—and in its ruins extinguishing the last hope of humanity for self-government. Permit me to say, that this government has cost Bjsioii too much to be given up or hazarded for slight or trivial causes. Some ol the patriots of the Kevoiuti'n slid linger among you and the monumental pdl.tr ol your greatful recollec tion of the heroes who fell at Bunker Hill, would seem to be a mockery, if their sons could so soon for get that this Constitution cost th© heart’s blood cf their sires. That your citizens have acted wisely and patriot ically in sustaining the law, 1 cannot doubt. Their conduct his been governed by the highest cense of moral and political obligation ; and for lids noble example, I feci constrained, as the Chief Magis trate, whose especial duty it is to see that the laws are faithfully executed, to return the citiz* us of Boston my warmest acknowledgemen . ,—and I should have been most happy to have dune this i" person were it consistent with my official encage ments to leave this city. With many thank* to y«u, and through you to the citizens of Boston, for this k : nd invitation, I have the honor to be, your friend and fellow-citizen. Millard Fillmore Manufacture of Steel Pens —The fol lowing interesting particulars are from the London Builder: Steel pens are almost entirely manufactured by women and young girls; and ii is probable that out ol 2000 persons or up wards now engaged in the bu siness, not above 100 or 150 are of the male sex. — Tne manufacture of pen holdersand pen boxes, gives employment io an additional number of woui-n and children, variously estimated from 260 to 400 per sons. About the year 1820 or 18*21, ’he first gro?s of “three slit” pens were sold, wholesale, at the rate of £7 4s. the gross. In 1830, they had fallen to Bs.; and io 1832 to 6s. the gross. One factory alone in Birn ingham, producer- them at the rate of no b ss than 40,000 gross, cr 6 760.000 in a week—very nearly a ini lion, or 960,000 per working day, or 279,528,000 per annum. Al the lowest calculation, Birmingham produce" ItGD oAUien per annum'. — The cheapest pens arc void as low as 2d. per gross, wholesale ; and the price rises with the elasticity and finish of the pens up to 3s. 6d. and ss. p*r gross. Birmingham produces them all, and one establish ment has tie distinctive mark of 500 different deal ers in all parts of the country, as well as on .he con tinent of Europe and America, for whom ue manu factures according to order. The sheets of steel received from Sheffield, are re duced to the required tensity by successive transits through the rolling mill operations, tended by men anti buys. Then reduced to the thinness of a steel pen, length about two feet, breadth two and a half to three inches the sheets are icady for punching out the blanks. This process is performed with very great rapidity—one girl of average industry and dex terity being able to punch out about 100 gross a day. The next operation is to place the blanks in a concave die, on which a slight touch from a convex piece pro* duces the required shape, that of the semitubc. The slits and apertures to increase the elasticity, and the maker’s or vender’s name or mark are produced by a similar tool Previously, however, the pen under goes a variety of other processes. When complete all but the slit, it is soft and pliable, and may be bent or twisted in the hands like a piece of thin lead.— Being collected in grosses, or great grosses, the pons are thrown into little square boxes t y men, and placed in a furnace, whore they remain till box and pen are ol a white heat. They are then taken out an thrown biasing hot into pails cr tanks of oil, when they may be broken like so many walers alter drain ing, they are then made to revolve rapidly in a per forated cylinder. The Asia left New York at noon on Wednes day lust for Liverpool. She look 110 passen gers, and specie as follows : American g01d,3966,090 “ elver. 100,000 English gold, 60,000 T0ta1,51,116,000 Previously rep:rted,.*15,853,901 Making a total of specie exported since Jan. Ist 0f316,966,901 Periodicals. The North British Review, for May, Leonard Scott &. Co’s, republication, has been laid on our table by Thomas Courtney, the Agent for this City. Mr. Courtney las also received, “Mrs Whittlesey's Magazine, ’ * Robert Merry's'' 1 and the “Dollar Magazines, 11 all for May and June. “The Farmer’s Guide.” The last number has been laid on our table by J. A. Millen Agen t. The New Costume.—The following article on the new costume of the ladies, by the editor or editress of the Lilly, published at Seneca Falls, N. ¥., is altogether the most sensible thing we have seen on the subject. She is the daughter of Judge Cady of the Supreme Court, and the wife of Senator Stanton, of New York, and as will be seen, is as independent as a wood sawyer : Our Costume. — Let the silk worm stay in its cocoon, until its own wants compel it to throw it aside. Let every woman stay in her Jong pet ticoats until she feels the necessity of a change ; then no opposition or trivial objection will de tain her; tnen she will noi doubt or hesitate as to what sheehalldo; she will not heed the remarks of rude men and boys, and unmanner ly women. Though I do not wish to convince any woman against her will of the reasonable ness of this change ; yet 1 would answer some of the objections 1 have heard. Some say the Turkish costume is not graceful. Grant it. For parlor dolls, who 101 l on crimson velvet couches, and study attitudes before tall mirrors—for those who have no part to perform in the great drama of life, ior whose heads, hearts and hands there is no work to do, the drapery is ail well ; let them hang it on. thick and heavy as please, though to the highest artistic taste, rhe human form is most beautiful, most graceful, wholly undraped and unadorned. Are not the graces themselves thus represented ? 1 have seen a gallery of beauriful paintings and statuary, in the old world, but nowhere is the ideal form to be found in a huge whalebone boddice and bed raggled skirt. If the graceful is what you aim at, study the old painters and sculptors, and not Godey’s Book of Fashion. But for us, common place, every day, working characters who wash and iron and brew, carry water and fat babies up stairs and down, bring potatoes, apples and pans of miik from the cellar, run our own errands through mud or snow ; shovel paths, and work in the garden, why “the drapers” is quite too much —one might as well work with a bail and chain. Is being a woman so criminal an of fence thvt we are doomed to this everlasting bondage 1 ‘ But,’* say some, “it is not the fashion!” Neither is it the lasliion to be honest and virtuous, to lead simple, pure and holy lives. Thetiue and earnest soul is always odd. Again, some women of doublful character are propo sing to wear the short dress.” Well, have they not also a long one 1 “But men and boys laugh at us.” That is strong reason in its favor. It is good to be laughed at. The more ridicule you encounter the better. It strengthens and devel opes the character to stand alone. “What will the people say 3” has been a powerful weapon incrushing many generous impulses, high re solves, and noble deeds. Women are said to have excessive love of approbation; therefore mu-1 v.e cultivate a deference to the opinions of others, but be ever alive to their sufferings. Let the weal and woe of humanity be every thing to us, but their praise and their blame of no account. E. C. S. Charleston amd Literpool Steamers.— We understand that the first of the line of Charleston and Lirerpool steamers, now in process of construction, has been named " South Carolina."— Mircurf | (>ui aclcnowleogemeius ar© >mo ’‘Effie” lor hsr ■ esteemed favors. Th? tollowing beautiful lines weie overlcokcd, ainone ou« files of letters, until her note recalled them io our recollection.) THE PAST AND PRESENT. “ ’Tis not the lover which is lost— The love for which we grieve; But ’tie the price which they have cost, The memories which they leave.” I loved thee once madly—so deep was the spell My spirit was crushed when you bada me farewell, I wept long in anguish, and mourned long in vain For the light of thy presence to cheer me again. I strove to forget thee—to scorn and to blame Thy falsehood, but still found my true heart the same; I struggled on bravely and conquered at lari, Yet even now memory weept o’er the past. Could 1 in the stream of forgetfulr.css lave My soul as the seaweed beneath the dirk wave, I might be more happy then I e’er can be While memory lingers o’er lost hopes and the?. Yet I love thee not as I did when I deemed Thy mind was as noble, as pure as it seemed; No mantling blush now suffuses my cheek When thy once adored name 1 hear others apeak. That name which when spoken sent a thrill through my frame. Os joy when they praued thee, and grief when they’d blame. But changed are my feelings and broken the spell, 1 love thee no longer—now false one farewell. Effie, Columbia Co., Ga. April Bth, 1851. Union Congressional Convention* The Convention to nominate a Constitu tional Union candidate for Congress in the Eighth Congressional District, met in the City Ball in Augusta, this day, June 23d, 1851. On motion of Col. B. H. Cumming, Thoi. W. Miller, Esq., took the Chair for the pur* p i-te of organization, and Joseph B. Jones was requested to act as Secretary. On a call of the counties, the following gen tlemen announced themselves as delegates from their rcspcc.ive counties: Wilkea —I. T. Irwin, W. W. Simpson, Morgan Calloway, D. W. Me Janek in. Warren—Thus. F. Persons, Isaac B. Huff, Thos. J. P icher, Geo. V. Neal. Columbia—C. H. Shock ly, G. Alford, M. Burt, W. A. L Collins. Richmend—Thos. W. Miller, Thomas Skinner, Win. McLaughlin H. H. Cumming. Jefferson—Geo Stapleton, P. B. Connelly. Burke—J. B. Jones. CJ. 11. H. Cumming moved that Geo. Stapleton be appointed Pretnden*. cf the Convention, which was unanimously adopted. On taking the Chair the Piesident made his ac knowledgments in a brief and very appropriate ad dress. Co’. Cumming moved that Messrs. B. B. Moore and Rob'. Davie, citizens of Lincoln county, who were I resent, be invited to participate in the Convention, as there were no Delegates present fiom Lincoln, which was adopted. On taking their seats the gentlemen declined through Mr. Moore, to cast any votes, as they did not ieel authorised to represent the citizens of Lin coln. On motion of P. B. Connelly, the Hon. ROBERT TOOMBS was nominated as the Candidate ct the Constitutional Union Party, for Congress, in the Eighth Dongreastonal District, by acclamation. On motion of U. H. Shockley, the following (Com mittee was appointed by the Chair to notify Mr. T. of his nomination, and requ- st his acceptance there of, viz: U. H. Sbockly, T. W. Miller, and G. V. INeal. On motion of Mr. Mcore, the thanks of the Con vention were returned to the President and Secreta ry for the prompt discharge of their duties. After the adoption of a Resolution ordering the publication of the proceedings, the Convention ad journed. GEORGE STAPLETON, Pres’t, Joseph B. Jones, Sec. Educntiunwl Meeting in Greeiutboro’. At a meeting of the citizens of Greene county, on the 2O'.h inst., W. Godkin, Esq., was called to the Chair, and George C. Dawson, E : q., appointed Secretary. The object of the meeting was made known by the Chairman in a few sensible aud practical remarks on the subject of general Education, and the bene fits to be expected from a more thorough and ap proved system of I ns’ruction, especidliy among the poorer classes. The Chair was requested to suggest four suitable persons to represent the county in the Educational Convemion to be held in Marietta, on the 6(h day of Ju‘y next. Upon consultation, the following gentlemen were appointed: Rev. Vincent Thornton, Rev. N. M. Craw for J, Judge Stocks, and Henry C. Ware, Esq., On motion of R. J. Dawson, the Secretary was requested to forward the proceedings of the meeting to ihe Editors of the Chronicle & Sentinel, Consti tutionalist, and Temperance Banner. On motion of Dr Foster the meeting then adjourn ed. JAMES W. GOD kin, Chairman. Geo. C. Dawson, Secretory. To the Editor of the Chronicle ft Sentinel: Sir—No class of people have greater or more frequent reason to exclaim, “save us from our friends,” than those engaged in the public service. Tne article which you re-print from the Savannah Republican, on Gov. McDon ald’s acceptance, is the best specimen of that sort of agony" 1 have recently met with Though as much opposed to McDonald’s elec tion as the “ Republican” can p >s?ibly be, 1 should be very unwilling for thj principles in dicate i in that article to stand as the opinions of his opponents. The gist of the article is to be found in the third question propounded. The first and second questions are mere non sense. The ConsiiUiuon does au horize the calling “ forth the militia o suppress insurrec tions and repel invasions,” and the acts of 1795 and 1867 are yet in lull <*»«»• TJuV uwF (her of these facts elucidate, modify, or in any way control the proper answer to the third qtiostion. Tne answer to that depends wholly upon the right of a State to secede from the Union. The act of 1795, with stringent limi tations, only authorizes the use of the militia to put down mob resistance, either to the laws of the United States, or of the several States, and the act of 1807 only authorizes the regular forces to be used in the cases where the militia may be used under the act of 1795. This con flruction of the act of 1795, was well settled in 1832, and affirmed to be true by Gen. Jackson, even in the message in which be denied the right of secession ; and because of this con struction, ho asked Congress for the Force Bill, to enable him ’o resist the lawful authori ties of the State of South Carolina. That bill was introduced by M r. W ebster, in affirmance of these principles of Gen Jackson and his Cabinet. Yet, both he and they denied the right of t ecession. Therefore, if a Stale has no right to secede, the Governor of Georgia would have no authority, under tho Constitu tion, or the acts of 1795 or 1807, to “ obey auy call,” for the militia of Georgia to make war upon a seceding State without further legislation. And if a State has tho right to sc cede, no call whatever for that purpose, no matter how made, either in compliance of fur ther legislation, as in the case of the “ Force Bill,” or otherwise, would, or ought to be, re garded by any Governor of Georgia. The Republican’s article, therefore, leaves the question of secession just where it found it and it had better let it remain there Me Don ald has planted himself upon principles and measures odiou-* to the people and destructive of their dearest interest. Keep him there The “ Republican newspaper” seeks to plant him upon the corner stone of the Republican party. “ Save us from our friends.” The right of secession upon the sovereignly of the States—like that sovereign'y it is indestrucli ble, inalienable and incapable of annihilation, and will and ought to be exeicised whenever tho public liberty requires it The mission of the Constitutional Union Party is to prevent its exercise until then. A Citizen. We are reminded by the Augusta Chronicle, of an important omission in the following pre scription whish we now supply — Rome Cour. Kbcipe for Bowel Complaint.—Take of Rhu barb 3>J grains—Calcined Magnesia 60 grains— piwdered Gum-arabic half an ounce —four grains Sulphate of Morphine—rub tbern well together and add 8 ounces mint water —mix »be whole in a pint of water, well sweetened with loaf Sugar. Dose for adults, two table spoonsful!; proportionately less fur children. The United States Balance Floating Dry Dock at Pensacola now nearly finished is the largest structure of the kindin the world, being 350 leet in length inside the gates, 105 feet in width, 91 feet in clear ; height to deck 40 feet. Messrs. Gilbert &, Secor, the paten ees, who built it for the Government, warrant it to take up the largest ship in the U. S. Navy, with ar ament, &c , on board—giving security for the performance of this in the sum of $300,- 000. it is believed by praciical judges that this dock will raise a ship of 6000 tons weight in 40 minutes after she enters it. The capacity of this fl >atiug dock is more than double that of the stone dock recently built at Brooklyn, New York, and three times that of the docks at Norfolk and Boston. Neither of the above stone docks are large enough to admit one of the United Stales mail steamships of Collins line The interest of the money, a sione dock of this capacity would cost, built at this place, would build a floating dock every year, and it now appears to be the opinion of engineers who have examined this small specimen of American mechanism hat if it were now at the World’s fair there probably would be no thihg more said about “space unoccupied.”— Mobile Reg. The fire at St. Louri, Mo., on the 12th In stant heretofore noted under the telegraph head, destroyed property to the value of $160,- 000. Among tLe property burnt was the steamer Suharjii, which with her cargu, w s valued at $75,000. The trial of Abraham Taylor, a’ Elkton for the murder of the Cosdeu fam'ly, was conclu ded on Thursday by the jury finding the pris oner guilty of murder in the first degree. We understand from a eent.eman who was at Holmesville durinz the sitting of the Dis trict Convention, that Ct as H. Hopkins, E-q. was nominated as the Union randida*e for Congress for the Ist Cong essiona! District. Col. Dilworth and Col. Hopkins were the on ly candidates for Me nomination. We did not learn the particulars of the ballotting. Tne counties of Mclntosh, Glynn, Camden, Wayne, Tatnall. Appling, Telfair, and per haps Liberty, we understand were represented. —Sas- Rep. Crops in Southwestern Georgia.—A let ter from Alban/, in this State, dated June 18, states that South*estern Georgia has been vis ited wi h copious and ref eshing show**®- Late corn crops have been very much revived and benefited, and cotton represent ed as promising, bearingand blooming we Sav. Rep. Cc'TTiweorr THE LacK»—The Norfolk Ar go. .av* .hat .he Secretary of<he Navy hu re vived "the ob.oleie regulation of ex Secretary Badger, requiring all persons conoected with the navy to wear locks of certain prescribed length, and to dispense altogether with the moustache, tuft and goatee EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE, further by the Humboldt. Nsw York, June 17,9 P. M. The steamer Humboldt from Southampton, arrived at her wharf thia evening at 6 o'clock She brings four days later news. Her dates from London are to the 4th, and Liverpool to the 3d of June. The Humboldt left Havre at 10 A. M. on the 4th, and arrived in Cowea Roads at 7 P. th® Bam ® day. The Hermann had arrived out in 15 days from New York and the Europa arrived on the Istof June in The Lafayette reached Liverpool on jn 8 t, r having pre viously put into Queenstown for coal. 1 he St. Lawrence wailed from Southampton I for New York on the 31 of June ; she was to ’ouch at Lisbon to land the Hon. Mr. Hed derick. Charge to Portugal, who was the bear er of a treaty between the two countries. The Commander and officers gave a grand entertainment the day before sailing to the Mayor and Corporation, as a return for the hospitalities extended to them India. — The overland India mail reached London on the 2d of June, with Bombay. Cal cutta and Madras dates to the 25th of April. There continued to be some disiurbancew on the Persian frontier. The disbanded troops were overrunning the Nisanis territories and enacting every species of violence. Jotter Pensaud, the Commissariat Contractor of the Anglo Indian Armies for the last ten years, to whom the Government owes £500,000 ster ling. and has been endeavoring to evade, has been acquitted of the charges brought against him of frauds and malfeasance in office. China — The Rebels were making headway against the Imperial Loops, and had taken pos session of the Province of Kewangsai. The commercial advices from lnd : a are not so favorable as brought by the last mail. Portugal.— The Chamber of Deputies was dissolved on the 25 h of May and a new Cor tez convoked for the 15th of September to revise the Constitution. The country was generally tranquil. Two regiments at Oporto attempted to get up a re actionary meeting, which was promptly suppressed. Germany.—The King of Prussia had re turned to Berlin from Warsaw and assisted in the inauguration of the statue of Frederick the Great. The meeting of the Emperors of Russia and Austria at Olmutz, was entirel/ of a military character. France. — The news relates almost entirely to the President’s visit to the Provinces, where he had been received with great enthusiasm. Louis Napoleon made a speech at Dijon of great political importance. His popularity is evidently on the increase, and it is said sh >uld the election take place to morrow he would be re-elected. The Parisian Journals are dissat isfied with the speech, and regard it as a dec laration of war against the Assembly. The President returned to Paris on the 3d of June. Spain.— The Government is in fear of an in surrec.ion in Madrid, and military precaution had been taken. The Spanish Democrats were again active, [ and had issued a programme of future opera tions. ( England.— The Great Exhibition was visited on the 2d of June by nearly 50,000 persons. • Her Majesty was present. Capt. Matthews 5 late of the City of Glasgow, is to have com mand of the Great Britain steamship, and is coming to New York in September. The Atlantic will bo ready for sea on the let of July. Liverpool Market* Colton.— Sales on the 2d of 700 J bales at previous rates, which were fully maintained. Sales on the 3d of 4000 bales, prices buoyant. J lireadstufs. — American Flour was more salea- ble at late rates. Corn met with fair enquiry at 30a. a 30s. 6d. for new yellow, a decline of 6d. for the week. Wheat was in fair request and previous quotations fully maintained. London Money Market.— Ths Money market is easy. Consols were firm and tending upwards. American Securities eteady. Accounts from tbo manufacturing districts are more favorable. Havre, June 4th. — Cotton is in better demand aud the downward tendency in prices has been ar rested. The Humboldt brought 70 passengers. From the N. O. Picayune. Fifteen Days Later from California* Arrival of the steamship Alabama. Another 'Ter rible Conflagration at San Francisco—Dose Estimated at 315,000,00)/ — Awful Fire at Stockton !! $1,200,000 worth of Property De stroyed I The steamship Alabama Capt. Foster, ar rived here this morning from Vera Cruz, which port she left on the 9 h in st. By this arrival we have received files of pa pers from Vera Cruz to the Bth inst., and from the city of Mexico to the sth. We regret to learn from the Trait d'Union of the 4th inst., that California has again been visited by two destructive conflagrations, surpassing even those which have already made San Francisco famous. The news reached the city of Mexi co byway of Acapulco, at which place the steamers stoo on their way down to Panama. To come directly to this important inteliigence, we give below h translation of everything that we find in the 7rail d'Union on the subject. The editor of that print commences by say ing that California is decidedly the country of fires. We have often had occasion to recount the frequent conflagrations ol which San Fran cisco has been the theatre. It :s not long since we chronicled the almos: entire des*ruction of Nevada City, end now we have to speak of two frightful catastrophes, by which the richest portions of San Francisco and Stock'on have been reduced to ashes. Our readers remember, beyond doubt, that on the 4th of May, of last year, San Francisco was visited with a fire which destroyed the . commercial portion of the growing city. This year, on the same day. as if celetrat® th* terrible anniversary for the fifth time in two or three years three-fourths of the business part of the city have been again reduced to ashes. Never, »ays the Aha California, has so hor rible a confl igra’iou beer, witnessed since the burning of Moscow. The fire broke out about 11 o’clock on the night of the 3d of May, in the second storj >f a painter’s shop, in Clay sireet, on the south side of Portsmouth Square, and in the neighborhood of the Grand f'laza. Al the moment when the fire made its appear ance it had very little strength, but all of a sud den the bouse in which it originated, the Amer ican House and a furniture store, became en veloped in flames. The wind, which at first blew moderately, soon increased to the force of a hurricane. The fire engines were quickly on the ground, but unfortunately the chief en gineer and bis assistant were absent from the city, which prevented operations being carri ed on with celerity and vigor As soon as the three houses above mentioned became ignited, it was seen that it would be impossible to master tho fire. The devouring element then followed this course ; towards the west it ascended Clay street nearly .o Du pont sireet; to the southward it traversed Sa cramento as far as California s reef, crossed Kearney, and extending towards the south, along California street, as tar as P.ne street. To the westward it ascended Pine till it reach ed Sansome street; then northward it took the direction of California street, and then turning eastward it corsurned Battery street, which form? the southern limit of the fire, with the exception of a point a*, the northeastern ex tremity, where it crossed Battery street, and destroyed a few houses on the very edge of the bay. In another direction the fire descended Clay street to Harney street, following Harney street towards the no»th as far as Jackson street; thence along Jackson to Montgomery; then to the northward as far as Pacific s'reet; then eastward to Broadway, whence it extended dia gonally as far as Vallejo street and, at last, cros r sing Battery street towards tne east, it stopped , al the shores of the bay. In this circuit of a mile in length and a half a mile in width, scarcely fifteen houses escaped. There were many houses of which the walls were left standing, but of which all the con tents were destroyed. Some cellars and safes retained their contents in a state of perfect pre servation. Nineteen squares of houses were destroyed. It is not easy to estimate the num ber of houses consumed, but it amounts to at least fifteen hundred The total loss is sap posed to be between liaetoe and twenty millions; fifteen millions would be about a fair estimate. The fire effected its work of destruction in ten hours, the last building being consumed at 9 o’clock on the morning of the 4th. The spectacle during the fire was frightful. Thousands of men, women and children, scarcely clad, and seemingly in a state of deli rium, crowded the streets. The city was filled with people, wandering about without an asy lum The horror of the scene was increased by the sight of the unfortunate persons who, from time to time, were compelled to rush from the midst of the flames, and precipitating themselves into the streets were at last, after vain efforts to escape, crushed by the falling buildings in full view of hundreds of specta tors, unable to render assistance. Two per sons were in ibis manner burnt alive in the streets, and six others perished in the iron stores of Messrs. Taaff’e & McCahill, The number of persons known to have been killed is eight, twenty others were more or less severely wounded. After the fire two men were killed by the lal.'ing ruins. All the newspaper offices in San Francisco, with the exception of that of the A'ta California, were consu Tied. Two, ihe Herald and Pacific News, had recommenc ed publication, and the others were to appear soon. Ten d ys after the fire, from hundred and fifty to three hundred houses were rebuilt. The energy of the people of San Francisco did not appear to be at all repressed by this cruel blow. The Alta California calls on the people to take courage and never despair. In truth, business saemed to be scarcely suspend ed in consequence of the calamity. The mer chants, while awaiting the rebuilding of tbeir stores, attended the sale of their goods inothof parts of the city. Prices of merchandise, which were very low before the fire, suddenly were quintupled, and rents ro.-e in tha same proportion. The house of Burgoyne Co., after the fire, found $1 500,000 safe in their iron chest. The employees in the customhouse saved all the funds that it contained, amounting to a million of dollars, by throwing them into a "Among the bnilding* de.troyed were the Cu»tohouse, Union Hotel, Parker house, Adelphi Theatre, the Uramauc Museum, Ne tionai New World Hotel, City Ho el, Delmon ieo Hotel, Merchants’ Exchange, the Rosa building, American Hotel, Revere House, the office Ot the Steamship Company, Ac., Ac. THE STOCKTON FIRE. The fire at Stockton, taking the relative size of the place into consideration, was quite as dime rous &s that at San Francisco. It took place on the sth of May, and commenced in a large and magnificent new building known as the Merchanu’ Hotel. It is supposed ihat it was the work of some malefactor, who wnhe I to aid the escape of the criminals in the prison which adjoins the Merchants’ Hotel. The wind, however, car ried the flames in a contrary direction, so that the object of the incendiaries was not achieved. All the business houses on the Levee except